In August of 2008, the Austin American Statesman’s reporter Patrick Beach got a head start on our anniversary celebrations. Beach stopped by the studios and offices of KUT throughout the week, meeting with everyone from engineers to on-air staff, getting a glimpse of every day life around Austin’s most reliable resource for music and news.

His pieces, “KUT Over the Years: How a Little Station (and its Aura) Grew”, “50 Years of Not Playing the Hits” and “The On-Air Personalities Behind the Music” ran as companion pieces together with a photo slideshow.

Interested in our history and staff? Take a look at our photo gallery, which takes us all the way back to the ’60s, and timeline, which follows our progress from 1958 to the present.